for those asking about those NLIs. if you want Wade’s comments, complete release up at Hawaiiathletics.com.

Charlie Wade announced the signing of Max Wechsung and Aniefre Etim-Thomas of Long Beach City College and Garrett Komisarek of Irvine Valley College for the 2013 season.

In addition local products Kolby Kanetake of Moanalua High School and Daniel Aina, Jr., of Kamehameha Schools-Hawai‘i will also join the team.

Wechsung, a 6-foot-7 setter, graduated from St. John Bosco High School in 2010 while Etim-Thomas is a 6-foot-3 middle blocker and graduate of Wilson High School. Both played two seasons at LBCC and will have two years of eligibility remaining at UH.

The duo helped LBCC win the California Community College Athletic Association State Championship while both earned all-tournament team honors. On the season, Wechsung played both setter and opposite and was named Western State Conference Most Valuable Player. He averaged 2.20 kills, 6.25 assists, 1.49 digs, and 0.90 blocks per set and also led the conference in service aces per set (0.41).

Etim-Thomas, a first-team all-conference pick, averaged 1.97 kills on .560 hitting, which led the state. He also finished second in the state in blocks per set (2.08). During the state playoffs, he averaged 4.25 kills and 2.25 blocks and hit .583.

Komisarek, a 5-foot-8 libero, graduated from Saint Francis High School in 2010 before attending IVC. He played in 31 sets as a freshman and averaged 1.50 digs per set and last season finished fifth in the state at 2.77 digs per set while earning second-team all- Pacific Coast Athletic Conference honors and all-tournament team honors at the state championship.

Kanetake and Aina were among four players from the state of Hawai‘i named to the AVCA High School Boys Senior All-American watch list. Overall, they are among 74 players from 13 states who are eligible to earn All-America first team or second team honors. In addition, both were recently named to the all-tournament team at the Hawai‘i High School Athletic Association Division I Championships in which Aina’s KS-Hawai‘i team finished runner-up and Kanetake’s MHS squad placed third for the second straight year.

Kanetake is a two-time all-OIA East first-team selection who also was named to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s Fab 15 boys’ all-state team as a junior. Aina is a four-time all-BIIF selection.

Since these guys are all being announced by UH I assume they are all getting some sort of scholarship.
I was under the impression these were all walk ons and UH was still searching for Maar’s, Mosolf’s, and Welch’s replacements not that these guys were The replacements. 3 liberos surprises me.

and no mentions of Rey Speller, Darren Sorrel or Joby Ramos, who are listed as commits on middlthitter.com.

Agreed , Charlie needs to bring in another hammer on the outside to replace hunt since Maar bailed. I am puzzled why three liberos will be getting part of the 4.5 scholarships. Doesn’t make sense to me. I really like Max though, I hope he can become the starting setter.

WF, I guess you could look at it that way. The SIDs assigned to each sport get their information from the coaches. Wade may be going that route to say he still wants local kids. Although the 3 he said he most wanted when he got here are going to Stanford, Cal Baptist and Concordia.

Back in the fall, middlehitter.com listed Barreta, and Darren Sorrell, as commits, then both got taken down around the time the season started but Sorrell got put on rumored, and Barreta’s changed to Concordia.

Then she wouldn’t have a problem answering my question. Obviously I didn’t see it if and when she already stated the answer to my question in a previous thread. But like I said, I would rather hear it from Cindy herself, not this he said she said thing. Unless u can provide me the link…

she has two years left. and, yes, answered that several weeks ago. She was injured her sophomore year about 8 matches in. Last season she led the team in kills. She has 2 varsity letters to her credit. ASU listed her for this coming season as a R-Jr.

Here is some depressing news. the Big West according to the Idahostatesman newspaper is going to entertain the membership application from Boise State to move their Olympic sports to the Big West. It would need to be approved by the Big West schools including Hawai`i.God I hope we don’t have to go back there again.

Big West Commissioner said that Hawaii pays for travel subsidies to Hawaii for the teams that were in the Big West as of the time UH joined. Any subsequent members get no subsidies.
Hawaii ges no money to travel from other schools.

LC, i understand. But the question was about subsidies. ergo my response.
What SDSU is trying to do is get out of the Big East, since they supposedly are partnered with Boise State for football. They apparently want back in the MWC for football and are dumping all other sports into the Big West.
The problem i see with Boise State is their sole commitment is to football. Most of their other sports have stayed at the JC level.

As of this moment the addition of SD State in 2013 will give the BW ten members. This will allow the Wahine to continue having the three preseason tournaments plus one out of conference match. The BWC RPI isn’t that good, UH needs to seek a strong out of conference schedule. Don’t feel that Boise brings anything to the table, their greed for BCS bucks caused them to leave the MWC. They had no regard for those that they left behind, the BWC should not feel the need to bail out their athletic dept.

San diego State is really annoying, thinking they can boss be the big dog of the conference and influence all the other schools. San Diego State only wants Boise in the Big West so they can get all the money from being in the big east for football.

IMO The big West doesn’t need San Diego State or Boise, I say let them go back to the mountain west.

Speaking strictly of vb scheduling it would be better if SD State was not invited into the BWC. With nine teams UH would have two more dates to schedule an out of conference opponent. As it stands now, no team will be willing to fly across the pond for a single match.

Just a fun fact that Moanalua affectionately refers to themselves as “MoHS” to distinguish themselves from the many other “M” High School, or namely McKinley which was the first “M” school if I recall correctly.

Manu-Olevao was mentioned.
Hagin’s friendship with Goodman and the Asics Rainbow club team led her to contact Hawaii. Now she has been accepted by UH and will be here in July for summer classes, just like the three other new players and Punahou graduate Manu Tai-Olevao, who committed early.

Kastl led ASU in hitting last season. No. 8 in the pac-12 424 kills, 3.82 ups. No. 8 in overall points 465.0
considering ASU was 10th in the Pac 12 5-17, 9-22, I’d say she did pretty well.
you can get the info on pac-12.org.